This source cluster narrows the biography gap before Eddie / Edward Waldrep's later academic and current professional record. The strongest new chronology source is a Kent-era CV mirror that places him at Trevor G. Browne High School in Phoenix from 1991 to 1995, in the U.S. Army from March 1998 to December 2004 as an 11B infantryman who reached Staff Sergeant / E-6, then at Pikes Peak Community College in 2004-2005, UCCS in 2005-2008, and Kent State beginning in 2008.
The most useful interpretive shift is that the military-to-psychology bridge appears immediate rather than vague: the CV mirror and later theses support a sequence from infantry service to PPCC / UCCS, then to UCCS research-assistant work and Kent State graduate training. By 2011, the CV also lists a veteran-mentor role in the Suicide to Hope peer-based intervention study. That makes the trauma / veteran-service thread visible before the later VA PTSD clinician identity.
A follow-up military-verification pass strengthens the non-official public-source layer for service dates and rank: iVoterGuide lists United States Army, Staff Sergeant, 1998-2004, matching the older CV mirror's Staff Sergeant / E-6 service frame in less-specific form. NARA / NPRC official-record routing pages also clarify why the official record remains hard to close from open sources: a reported 2004 separation falls inside the 62-year non-archival, access-restricted OMPF window. The right current label is public-profile / CV-supported, official-record verification open.
A later best-evidence hunt did not locate a public DD-214, ERB, award order, CIB / Purple Heart order, NPRC / HRC response, or direct Waldrep unit hit. It did narrow the strongest public archive route: Fort Carson Mountaineer plus 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment / Task Force Rifles is now the best candidate lead for a unit-public-affairs search, because captured sources place 3d ACR at Fort Carson and in OIF-1 during the relevant window. This does not establish Waldrep's unit assignment.
A Mountaineer follow-up did not obtain complete issue PDFs. The user-supplied 2004-09-24 issue copy was byte-identical to the retained truncated capture, and browser / direct-download / Wayback checks did not resolve the access problem. A partial repair pass recovered some text from eight retained issue files. The recoverable text did not produce Waldrep / Waldrop, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman, CIB, or Task Force Rifles hits, but it did recover September 2004 3d ACR / Brave Rifles training and spring-return-to-Middle-East context. Treat this as a bounded negative screen plus source-class context, not a complete archive search.
1991-1995; U.S. Army March 1998 - December 2004; PMOS 11B; highest rank Staff Sergeant / E-6; PPCC 2004-2005; UCCS 2005-2008; Kent State from 2008.United States Army, Staff Sergeant, 1998-2004.2004 issue text contains 3d ACR / Brave Rifles Fort Carson training and return-to-Iraq context, while producing no Waldrep-specific or award-specific hit.2008, Kent State M.A. 2011, Kent State PhD 2015.Lecturer.| Date / range | Event or role | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|
1991-1995 |
Trevor G. Browne High School, Phoenix, Arizona | direct CV evidence, local capture incomplete | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror |
pre-1998 / early adulthood |
Construction work before military / psychology career | public interview claim, not quote-grade | Radical Center autogenerated transcript |
March 1998 - December 2004 |
U.S. Army service | direct CV evidence, not official personnel-record evidence | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror |
1998-2004 |
Infantryman, PMOS 11B; highest rank Staff Sergeant / E-6 |
direct CV evidence and reinforcing public-profile evidence, not official personnel-record evidence | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror; iVoterGuide |
post-9/11 |
Re-enlisted after 9/11 | self-controlled campaign evidence | campaign page |
| Iraq War period | Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment; Purple Heart; Combat Infantryman Badge | self-controlled / public-bio evidence; official verification open | campaign page; Free Black Thought / CTA / Change.org profile language; NARA / NPRC route package for access limits |
| military period | Infantry Squad Leader; Fort Carson stationing; met wife there | self-controlled campaign evidence | campaign page |
2004-2005 |
Pikes Peak Community College | direct CV evidence, local capture incomplete | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror |
2005-2008 |
University of Colorado Colorado Springs | direct CV evidence and later academic-source corroboration for B.A. 2008 |
browser-inspected CV; OhioLINK thesis / dissertation source notes |
2005-2008 |
UCCS research assistant; APA and Rocky Mountain Psychological Association student-affiliate period | direct CV evidence, local capture incomplete | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror |
2008 |
B.A., UCCS | direct academic-source evidence | OhioLINK thesis / dissertation source notes |
2008 onward |
Kent State graduate training | direct CV evidence and academic-source corroboration | browser-inspected CV; thesis / dissertation source notes |
2011 |
M.A., Kent State; Meaning Self-Efficacy Scale thesis | direct academic-source evidence | OhioLINK thesis source note |
2011 onward on older CV |
Veteran Mentor for Suicide to Hope Peer-Based Intervention Study | direct CV evidence, local capture incomplete | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror |
2015 |
PhD, Kent State; coping self-efficacy / traumatic injury dissertation | direct academic-source evidence | OhioLINK dissertation source note |
2024 |
Military-resilience article with UCCS and PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom VA Clinic affiliations | direct publication / profile evidence | PMC article; Colorado PROFILES |
2025 |
D20 campaign biographies emphasize Army veteran / VA PTSD clinician / UCCS and Kent State academic identity | campaign-controlled / media-source evidence | campaign page; KKTV candidate guide |
| Source | Target | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waldrep | U.S. Army | enlisted service, infantry MOS, rank | military experience / later professional biography | direct CV evidence; official-record verification open | browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror |
| Waldrep | Operation Iraqi Freedom / Purple Heart / Combat Infantryman Badge | deployment / award claims | military legitimacy / public biography | self-controlled and public-bio evidence; official verification open | campaign page; Free Black Thought / CTA / Change.org language |
| Waldrep | UCCS | undergraduate education and research-assistant work | education / psychology-track transition | direct CV evidence and academic-source corroboration for B.A. | CV mirror; OhioLINK source notes |
| Waldrep | Kent State University | graduate training, M.A., PhD | academic credential / psychology research | direct evidence | thesis and dissertation source notes |
| Waldrep | Suicide to Hope Peer-Based Intervention Study | veteran mentor role | veteran-service / trauma-intervention bridge | direct CV evidence, local capture incomplete | browser-inspected CV mirror |
| Waldrep | VA PTSD Clinical Team | clinical role / specialization | veteran mental-health service / professional identity | public-bio and candidate-guide evidence; exact employment history open | campaign page; Free Black Thought; CTA; KKTV |
| Waldrep | UCCS Department of Psychology | lecturer / publication affiliation | academic role / professional legitimacy | direct profile evidence | Colorado PROFILES; PMC article |
personal.kent.edu path, Wayback, or another stable source so the local raw layer contains the actual CV content rather than an access-state capture.2004 through March 2005, plus 3d ACR / Task Force Rifles unit-archive material. Current direct-download attempts produced truncated PDFs or HTML access-state pages. Partial repair recovered some text and did not find a Waldrep / award hit, but the archive route remains technically unresolved.where he also taught; Colorado PROFILES currently supports Lecturer, but course catalogs, faculty directories, or appointment records would clarify dates.